Episcopal Clergy Biographical Research Guide

This book is on the colonial church in Virginia. The last section of the book contains short biographies of all colonial Virginia clergy.

This work also considers Anglican ministers in colonial Virginia, and it updates some of the historical data from the Goodwin text above.

This book contains an extensive index.

This doctoral dissertation describes Virginia clergypersons in the context of the American Revolution.

(also available in eBook form via HathiTrust). This two-volume reference provides an index to the Virginia Gazette, the colonial-era newspaper for Virginia. Search the index for clergy persons or individual churches. The library has the actual paper itself in microfilm format, ask a member of the library staff for assistance.

(also available as an eBook). Drawing on extensive research in parish and county records and other primary sources, Nelson describes Anglican Virginia's parish system, its parsons, its rituals of worship and rites of passage, and its parishioners' varied relationships to the church. All colonial Virginians--men and women, rich and poor, young and old, planters and merchants, servants and slaves, dissenters and freethinkers--belonged to a parish. This book contains a detailed index.